TL;DR on ZombieLoad: this is like L1TF, where the CPU is using "garbage" data during a fault instead of coercing to zero (except here it's data instead of addresses). It seems this is pervasive problem class across the design of Intel CPUs, not just a single instance.
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So my recommendation at this point would be to avoid Intel CPUs for several years if you care about this sort of thing, and OSes *need* to implement hyperthread pair privilege boundary separation, since that's most of the attack surface.
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gotta keep the single-threaded performance train going no matter what, I guess?
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Yeah, this is literally another case of "let's save ourselves a bank of AND gates to return 0 on faults".
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